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HOWTO: 10 Tips For Buying A Used Car

If you buy used cars, there is a risk that you may get stuck with a lemon. Since lemon... more

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Garmin Portable Friction Dashboard Mount for Nüvi Series and StreetPilot C5XX Series GPS Navigators

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Exclusive interview: Richard Hammond - Auto Trader UK

Vijay Pattni catches up with Top Gear presenter and self-confessed petrolhead Richard... more

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Revving powerful engines makes women feel sexy

"A new study in the UK confirms that women like fast cars, but apparently... more

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Mercedes C Class

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British International Motor Show

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The Most Popular Cars Among Thieves

The popular 1995 Honda Civic continues to be the top pick among thieves, holding onto... more

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Volkswagen's First US Assembly Plant Will Be In Chattanooga, Tennessee

VW to build plant in Chattanooga By: Mike Pare Volkswagen AG will build its first... more

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US auto sales plunge in June

June auto sales plunged, according to reports from the nation's major automakers,... more

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Tata Looking At Buying Hummer

GM is looking to shed Hummer to potential buyer Tata. Could this result in GIANT... more

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Elliott to Drive Old Spice “Prelude to the Dream” at Eldora Speedway

HARRISBURG, N.C. -- The Wood Brothers Racing no. 21 Sprint Cup Series driver, Bill... more

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150 mpg car - AFS Trinity’s XH-150 mpg Hybrid water ran car!

Bellevue-based AFS Trinity Corporation, which developed this technology in the XH-150,... more

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Scion Hako Coupe Concept

Scion To Reveal All-New Coupe Concept At 2008 New York International Auto Show

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Chevy Volt | GM Closes 4 North American Plants In Shift From Trucks Toward Cars

DETROIT: Responding to a consumer shift toward more fuel-efficient vehicles, General Motors said Tuesday that it would stop making pickup trucks and big sport utility vehicles at four North American assembly plants and would consider selling its Hummer brand.

The moves, announced Tuesday by the company chairman and chief executive, Rick Wagoner, will slash 500,000 units from the automaker's overall production, and pave the way for increased investment in smaller cars and passenger vehicles.

Wagoner said that rising gasoline prices had forced a "structural shift" by U.S. consumers away from truck-based vehicles built by GM.

"These prices are changing consumer behavior and changing it rapidly," Wagoner said at a briefing before GM's annual meeting in Wilmington, Delaware. "We don't believe it's a spike or a temporary shift; we believe it is, by and large, permanent."

In what he called difficult decisions, Wagoner said that GM would close plants in Janesville, Wisconsin; Moraine, Ohio; Oshawa, Ontario; and Toluca, Mexico, by or before 2010.

The actions follow previous moves to cut shifts at two truck plants in Michigan.

Wagoner said it was unlikely that the plants would reopen at any point with new products, but declined to provide details about relocating workers to other facilities.

Detroit automakers have been hit hard by rising fuel costs, which have significantly curtailed demand for pickups and full-size sport utility vehicles like the Chevrolet Tahoe. The shift toward smaller and lighter vehicles with better mileage is a problem for the companies, because they offer fewer such models than Asian carmakers like Toyota and Honda.

GM was expected to slash its truck production after similar moves were announced by the Ford, which recently eliminated a shift at each of four truck plants in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ontario, and extended the summer shutdown at several truck plants to reduce inventories. The company also announced last week that it would build its new subcompact car, the Fiesta, at a Mexican factory that assembles full-size pickup trucks.

While GM's production cuts were deeper than anticipated by industry analysts, the decision on the Hummer brand underscored the challenge GM was facing.

Once considered a brand with global market potential, the Hummer has become a symbol of the decline of the large, gas-guzzling sport utility vehicle.

Wagoner said that GM's directors had approved a "strategic review" of Hummer that could include "a partial or complete sale of the brand."

Over all, GM will reduce its North American production to 3.7 million vehicles from 4.2 million. The moves should add $1 billion in cost cuts to the $5 billion it hopes to save by 2011.DETROIT: Responding to a consumer shift toward more fuel-efficient vehicles, General... more

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Hypermiler | Beat High Gas Prices By Hypermiling

The average price for a gallon of a gas in the U.S. has reached $3.60 and continues to... more

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Hyundai Genesis - Compare to Mercedes E-Class, Infiniti M, and Lexus GS

What is it? Hyundai's production version of its first rear-wheel drive luxury... more

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With gas at $4-plus, some catch the bus and others miss the point entirely

With pump prices acting as strong a deterrent, Americans are putting the breaks on their driving habits. DOT Federal Highway Administration mileage figures released earlier this month show, "the sharpest yearly drop for any month in FHWA history."

Estimated vehicle miles on public roads in March 2008 fell 4.3% when compared to the same month last year, with Americans driving 11 billion fewer miles in total. It was the first time that March driving figure had declined since 1979.

With gas prices like daylight robbery, commuters are choosing to skip the pump and run –– to the nearest bus stop. The American Public Transportation Association reports that last year ridership reached levels not seen in 50 years, with 10.3 billion bus, trolley and train trips taken in 2007. Furthermore, they report that a staggering 35% of summer travelers say they are likely to use public transit to save on driving costs when visiting other cities.

All this is good news for the environment, but extremely bad news for car makers. New car sales dropped by 7 % in April; the seasonally adjusted sales total of 14.4 million vehicles was the worst in 13 years.

With car sales plummeting, car dealers are resorting to desperate measures to move vehicles. One Butler, MO dealer is offering a choice of $250 in gas or a free semi-automatic handgun with purchase. We're not sure why the handgun needs to be semi-automatic (how many people do Missouri drivers need to shoot in one go?), but so far it's by far the preferred option, with 80% of customers opting for a coupon which they can exchange for a gun once they've passed the require background check.

"It's a choice –– protection or gas," said Walter Moore of Max Motors. "We got high gas prices, theft, carjackings, innocent people getting hurt."

We could be wrong, but it seems like Walter’s customers aren’t the Prius-buying type. It's attitudes like these that make Walter's namesake Michael Moore so proud –– of Canadians. We're figuring Walter skipped Michael's anti-firearm flick Bowling for Columbine when it came out in theaters, but would like to think he might catch up with it on DVD since it notoriously features a bank which offered a similar bonus for new customers. Ultimately, the film showed that guns are about as bad for people as fossil fuels are for the planet. Again, we could be wrong, but we thought the end-game was to get rid of both.

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2010 Camaro Spotted on The Production Line

The 2010 Chevy Camaro is one of the most highly-anticipated new vehicles to come from... more

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Audi R8 diesel

It's a new twist on the high-performance exotic sports car - lean, mean and... more

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Rumors fly around an all-electric BMW

Toyota better watch it, the Germans are coming to the MPG game in a big way!

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